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Nothing about middle east conflicts is close to black and white. I'd recommend you read up on it.
Spoken like a true racist, grouping up "middle east conflicts" as if it was a single entity.
Pretty easy actually, Palestinians were there living their lives and having a sense of nationality as Palestinians since the latter years of the Ottoman Empire. Zionists decided they didn't care about that, decided they deserved their ancestral homeland, and western countries helped them militarily to relocate hundreds of thousands of people and murder tens of thousands on top. It's almost quite literally that easy.
most people would do the same for general geographic regions though.
If it were a war between germany and france for example, it would be referred to as a "western" war. Russia vs China would be eastern for example.
Most of these wars are culturally related, especially in the middle east where they seem to have a particular style of warfare, it only seems fair to refer to it as "middle eastern" arguably, the only one that isn't really doing this style of warfare here is israel. Though they clearly have reservations on morals.
Wow, funny, I didn't hear the bombing of Yugoslavia and its disintegration, the invasion of Ukraine, and similar conflicts in Europe ever called altogether "European issues", but separated very well individually.
well technically, semantically it would be "eastern european" even though it's not really a thing. And it is generally considered to be a "european" problem, if you look into the matters from a more global perspective, it's entirely fair to state that.
My main point though was that it's not "racist" to exclaim that, it's just incredibly broad and referential. Which in current times is probably reasonable.
My point is that extremely broad claims about extremely different and unrelated issues, and painting them all "oh so difficult", is a tool used by western media to make people think the problems are too complicated to be solved and there's just nothing to do about violence in "the middle east", as US and its allies weren't responsible for more than half of it.
That isn't how racism works.....is racist turning into the left version of "woke"? His comment wasn't even out of ignorance, that is what that area is referred to, and nothing about conflicts in that area (including the topic at hand) is black and white...
Grouping up a whole set of countries, ethnicities, histories and conflicts into a "middle east" category and call treating it all as a homogenous "non-black and white" issue is racist, sorry.
Thank you for ignoring the inconvenient part of my previous comment. Please tell me how the first Nakba isn't black and white.
It is the name of that region and conflicts within it are still conflicts in the Middle East. Still not racist, sorry. You get this worked up over people mentioning Europe or "The West"?
If people grouped up every single geopolitical conflict within Europe under a single category of equally non-black and whiteness, they'd be ignorant to do so. When western people do that with the middle east, it's just an excuse to keep their minds free of it and dismiss it all and the responsibility of their governments.
Funnily enough, you know where in middle east there weren't these "non-black and white" issues until three decades ago? Kazakhstan. Uzbekistan. Turkmenistan. Tajikistan. Azerbaijan. Kyrgyzstan. I wonder if there's something black and white about the whole thing now...
I'm Iranian, and there's no hope of going home any time soon. It's perfectly acceptable to lump the middle east in that statement. Show me one conflict in that region that's not black and white.
I assume you mean the opposite. I'll bring you one about your own country.
In the Mosaddegh era, a democratically elected, secular, progressive, leftist leader was well on the way of successful policy for Iranians through the nationalization of the oil industry which, up until then, as you probably know better than I do, was extracted by the British Petroleum with the knowledge and approval of the Shah (thanks to some juicy "contributions" to his personal fortune paid by the British), leaving almost no profit from the Iranian oil to the Iranian people. The British blockaded Iran militarily, and through MI6, with help of CIA, staged false-flag attacks on private businesses through paid actors who pretended to be communists (the party was in Mosaddegh's coalition). They literally bribed local mafias and gave them loudspeakers to pretend they were popular protests to prime people. And the poverty induced by the military economical blockade, summed up with all this shit and much more, made it so that the Mosaddegh government was deposed and the status-quo was more or less restored, and British Petroleum was happy.
Tell me how that's not black and white.
Imagine saying a literal Nazi style Genocide is not black and white.
Are you going to say Hitler actually had a point next?
Godwin's Law strikes again. The sure sign that someone has run out of logic for an argument
Are you denying israel is committing Genocide?
are you denying the war that russia is waging against ukraine?
No but I don't see how that's relevant here.
cool, love me some cognitive dissonance.
Just stop. This conflict has been going on for ages and is so complex, people have to actually study this shit to even remotely understand it.
Russia just fucked Ukraine.
All of this aside, the comparison of the two headlines is just dumb. The left side was from 2023, right after it happened. This was the official statement back then. What should they have written instead? They even used quotation marks. Fucking hell.
You understand neither conflict and speak of it as if you do.
There was never a Hamas base found in al Shiva that was a lie. The left headline is Zionist propaganda from the Guardian.
No, it was the official statement back then before investigations were made. This happened a couple of days after the Hamas kidnapped and killed a shit ton of Israelis. There still was some miniscule amount of credibility in this official statement, which turned out to be bullshit after a while.
And yes, I absolutely understand the invasion by Russia. That is not a complicated thing. I do not fully understand the Israel - Palestine conflict and neither do you. There's also way more parties involved than Israel and Palestine.
What you're doing is posting disgusting populist propaganda, downplaying the horrors of one conflict to shift attention to another. Just stop. Both conflicts are fucking disgusting.
Israel never had any credibilty before oct7. Every sane journalist knew how much israel lies about everything. Such as how israel killed an American journalist 1 year earlier and lied about it for half a year straight. Putting their lies in the headline is pure undeniable propaganda there is no plausible deniability.
Never have I downplayed what happens in Ukraine. I am only pointing out how the media heavily manipulates people in favor of Israel. Showing the extreme double standard.
And if you think Russia and Ukraine are the only players you understand as much of it as I stated before.
Injecting your emotions into this whole ordeal doesn't make it any truer. I'm in no way defending Israel by the way. I think Netanjahu is a fucking Nazi prick. But comparing the two headlines randomly like this is a form of propaganda. You're doing this to invoke anger in people. I came to Lemmy to be free of this shit.
Except for treaties supporting the 2 factions, Russia invading Ukraine is a crystal clear situation. There's no complexity at all. Putin decided to attack Ukraine once more, after annexing Crimea. Putin is a lying, power hungry sack of shit. Much like Netanjahu. But the whole Israel Palestine thing has a way longer history, with way more parties that were actively involved.
I'm any case, at least we agree that both wars are shit and I do appreciate that.
I am not defending Putin either. Putin is and remains a brutal and oppressive dictator.
But the background of the Ukraine invasion is far more complicated than Russia just wanting to invade for land. This is about NATO promising Russia not to expand eastward and doing so anyway.
If Russia made a pact with Cuba to store nukes and ballistic missiles right next to the US, do you think we would just let that happen? The Russian invasion was entirely predicted by US policy makers far before it happened. Here's a decent video on it.
So yes Russia broke their promise of not invading Ukraine. But NATO also broke their promise of not expanding eastward next to Russian borders. And NATO the rejected Russian membership application to join NATO.
Ukraine is being used as a battleground for NATO and Russia, which are both bad and imperialistic, to conduct a war. And I do support Ukraine in the war because it's their land. But it's not all black and white.